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His daughter Helga is born on November Cornhuskers is published. The Chicago Race Riots is published. With poet and novelist Margaret Widdemer, he shares the national Poetry Society of America prize the forerunner of the official Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, formally established in The award, funded in part by Columbia University, honors Cornhuskers. The Sandburgs buy property on Lake Michigan and build a house, designed by Mrs.
She begins a breeding program to improve the blood lines and milk production of her growing herd of dairy goats. He is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and receives honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, and, over the years, in many other colleges and universities.
Home Front Memo is published in He receives the Poetry Society of America gold medal. In the first of many U. His ashes are buried at his birthplace in Galesburg on October 1.
Neither in use of language nor in metrics does this qualify even as free verse; in style it is closer to John Dos Passos' contemporary experiments in prose than to poetry. The revolutionary naturalistic esthetic of the time called for a poetry of direct imitation; but Sandburg's "imitations" exhibited little artistry. Sandburg's early poetry not only tended toward excessively unshaped imitation of reality but also copied other poets as well.
Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" had appeared the year before Sandburg's "Fog" was published.
Eliot's image of the fog as a cat has profound implications in the context of the rest of his poem; "Fog," which was hailed as a fine example of an imagist poem, has no context whatsoever and hence no meaning. In terms of imagist poetics, "Fog" might be considered successful, but Sandburg had never counted himself a member of that movement; nor had he ever seriously considered its esthetic. Similarly, Sandburg's "Happiness" compares unfavorably with Ezra Pound's "Salutation," and his "Buffalo Bill" expresses mere nostalgia in relation to E.
Cummings's more penetrating "Buffalo Bill's. From to Sandburg devoted himself primarily to writing the six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, presenting Lincoln as the embodiment of the American spirit; he received a Pulitzer Prize in history for this work He also was collecting the folk songs that made up The American Songbook Honey and Salt , a remarkable achievement for a "part-time" poet in his 80s, contains much of Sandburg's best poetry.
Here the mellowness and wisdom of age are evident; the sound of an American idiom echoes through these poems more effectively than in the earlier "realistic" verse. By this time Sandburg had moved from his dependence on ideology to a deeply felt sympathy and concern for actual people.
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